I remembered what she'd told me in New York, about building something permanent, and I thought - just maybe - we were off to a good start.
I persist in performing.
If you put yourself in a situation of unpredictability and then find that it's completely possible to accept it, then you become an observer.
Take the classic experiment of using ordinary feedback: just take the output of something and feed it back into the input. Those of us who do that have had really rich experiences. And it is obvious that that line of experimentation can continue.
I am perfectly willing for my music to exist with somebody else's taste.
Performing is very much like cooking: putting it all together, raising the temperature.
The basic notion was the idea that the loudspeaker should have a voice which was unique and not just an instrument of reproduction, but an instrument unto itself.
The key to encouragement is in knowing what gives people courage; what spurs them on to action.
Believing in Hell must distort every judgement on this life.
I do believe that 2016 is going to be a great year for Democrats. . . because we are right on the key issues.
Politics should be, you know, as exciting as literature, as exciting film.